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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-04-08
FOR SALE.

WE HAVE A LARGE QUANTITY OF OLD
w newspapers on hand, which will be sold
for % cents hundred They useful for
wrapping parcels, laying under carpets, etc.
p. G.. ADVERTISER.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-04-08

Division II-Dairy Produce.
1. For the best Firkin of Butter, 10 lbs or more
2. For the second best ditto ditto
3. For the best pound of Butter, the exhibitors
being housekeepers making their own
Butter.
4. For the second best ditto ditto
5. For the best Cheese.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-04-08
Division III-Agriculture.

1. For the best Rice.
2. For the best Cereal Other than Rice.
3. For the best Fodder Plants.
4. For the best Sugar Cane
8. For the best Sugar.
6. For the best Hawaiian Honey.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-04-08

574 aprstf
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-21
Bloody Riot in Denver.

DENvER, April ia bloody riot oc.
CURED here tonight between rival
Swedish, Polish and Hungarian colonies,
at 3lth and Blake streets, which resulted
In the fatal shooting of five mon and the
serious wounding of several others. : :,
1t grew out of u christening festivitv.
When the christening party had eaten
and drunk they went out upon the side
walk and made war upon the inhabitants
OF ncigh hboring house. Others in the
nci8hborhood became involved and the
uproar became great.
1t required II detachment of q dozen
police, armed with Winchesters, to nuell
the disturbance. Three or four police
first made their appearance, when the
rioters postponed thei~ contention and
l0ined forces against the common enemy.
They could not stand against the rifles.
however, and about thirty wore lodged
IN the calaboose and some in the hosni-
tai. -
But one or two of the prisoners can
speak English. They are all RAGGED
dirty and spattered with blood, and have
the appearance of belonging to The low
est typo of humanity. Many of them
arrived in Donver only week ago, direct
from Hungaria, Poland, Bohemia and
other parts Of Europe,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-21
Whom to Plant Seeds.

1t is Il common notion that Che tenn
perature Of the air and The soil is a re-
liable indication Of the time for planting
the different varieties Of farm and gn'-
den seeds. Many farmers Will not plant
corn or cotton until, III their Judgment,
the soil Is "wmm enough" to grrmin0tC
the seed. That this iB not I'm unrrjnG
guide may be easily demonstrated BY
Ihe eXperence Of any one who has kept
dlary and ob@erycd closely. II is quite
Grue IhaG corn, nor cotton, nor other
seea VIII 9crmlnRto and como ND if tnc
temperature OF the soil continues. aItcl.
planting. below-tho proper degree OF
warmth FOR the termination and Growth
OF the PARTICULAR seed. But ordinary
observation shows that in o1r cbonocaIj,
SpIlh8 oll'nato tho temperature Of the
ar ana soii ON one day is no guarantee
OF OF WllaI 1t W3n be three or four dnys
thereafter; The conditions Of PLANTING
may be oil right ut the time Of bionfimS
and be oil wrong at the time of gnrmi99
mating. In the spring corn usually re-
quires about twelve or fourteen doya -
come up, and cotton seed from five 70
ten days. Hence, the weather nav be
all that could'be desired for gcvercl doVs
after planting tho seed and then fnTn
cold or ram. ltismoro important that fbr
latter half Of the period of germinotion
should be more favorable than the Trst
half. The correct rule is to plont ="
cordIng to time--the day OF the rno,,tl,
having regard otherwise onIy 70 49, No.,
or degree or dryness in the soil, which
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-21
NO. 80.

ought to be at any particular moment,
II on time; but as trains frequently and
generally get late the train of inferior
class must have it's movement expedited
| by some extraneous cause or it NAV be
delayed for hours awaiting train that
may have been wrecked or has been kept
back for some other of many causes.
Then the duties of the train lispat
are of Importance. He will pS6bably
give an order to the delayed train by
telegraph directing it not to go beyond
certain place which he thinks it can
reach without difficulty, and no directs
the opposing train to proceed to the
same place and there pass the other
train and in that manner the trains are
enabled to pass each other without any
delay to either. His great responsibility
consists in that he may have q dozen
other trains in his charge at the sano
time and in directing one train to 90
beyond its usual place to meet another
he may neglect to give an order to the
second train and in such an event o col
lslon would probably ensue, much prop
erty be destroyed and probably lives be
lost.
1t will readily be seen that the slight
est mistake Of train dispatcher might
cause serious results; and in this respect
ms responsibility is probably greater
than that of any other individual under
whose charge the public are placed. a
pilot on vessel may lose his reckoning,
but the fact soon becomes apparent to
others, and his capacity for mischief is
thereby lessened; other railway em-
ployes may neglect their duties, and
rush headlong into danger, but their
associates generally realize the situation
before any unfortunate results ensue;
but the slightest behest of train dis
patcher must be obeyed without ques-
tlon; even though to do SO would
the lives of those receiving
the orders-though of course until an
accident results the train men are igno-
rant of the fact that they have been given
wrong directions. .,
Instances of oversight of dispatchers
are extremely rarc-much less than of
neglect of conductors and engineers to -
adhere to the orders given to them-and
while they perform their onerous duties
almost entirely unknown to the people
whose lives they have in their control,
and therefore never receive the need of
praise due them, travellers ought at least
be made acquainted with their duties
md the important part they play in the
rapid and safe movement OF passengers.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-21
Thc Cotton TIOvcmCnt.

In its weekly review Of the movement
OF the cotton crop, the New York Finan-
clai Chronicle says that for The week
ending Friday, April s, the total receipts
have rcnchcd 29,3OS bales, against 81, lis
haIr3 last week, IS, DDS bales the previous
week, md 81, IlG Dulcs thrcc weeks since.
making the total receipts since the 1st of
september, 1876, 5,07O, l9l bales, against
i,"9i ,9S" bates for thc same period of
i">I ~G, showing mn increase since Sep
.cmi'r /, 1886, Of rs, POP bales.
Ihc exports for the same time reach a
total of 1861 bales, of which 27,08G
were 20 Great Britain, IOJ to France and
I&,3rj to the rest Of tho continent. The
total sales for forward delivery for tho
week are $50, '@l i~icS. For immediate
delivery the total .-lca foot up 9G1 bales.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-21
49, -
"TAUt Pale It'uMIan."

At one Of the villages on our const,
there are good many rough fishermen.
There are Il good number of churches
amt ministers there, and they have tried
10 90 something Tor these men. in their
way; hut, fin ing they could not, they
h&Tu given II up. The Church said, owe
have lImg oar bell, engaged our quar-
tottc CHOIR, and il you do not come, we
cannot help it.
There ia no command for people to
so to set the Gospel; the command is
to carry the Gospel to the pcople-"Go
Yc into all tho world" that means every
where. Miss Phelps was given up TO
dc, but her physlciuns said, 'If you go
10 such village on our coast, perhaps
the sea air may prolong your Life; but it
Is an awfuily wicked place" That pale
woman arrived there and took q room.
She slept but little the first night, and
toward morning was sleeping quietly
with her windows open for sea air, when
she WIS awakened by the rough swear
ln8 OF men under her window. She
! could not bear it, and, hastily dressing,
went down to the door, and said, ooh,
men, am q poor, sick, dying woman.
have come from the hills to prolong
my life, but you are going to drive me
| away"
'Onc wicked man said, "Who is going
to drive you away, you pale woman?"
"lon are; You have been swearing
about my Saviour"
The man frcmblcd, and said, II will
knock down the man that swcars.
Nobody shall swear while you arc here. -
man came along swearing. Said he,
You stop that; there is an angel here. .
In few days she took little cabinet
organ, hired hall, opened the doors
and windows, and the rough men gath
cred around. She touched the Rcys,
and began to sing, "NYhat friend we
nave IN Jesus" Before she had finished,
tears were in eyes unaccustomcd to wecn'
In II little while she had q church, aud
had need for q minister, and they arc
doing great things there that never
would have been done but for that pale
woman. DR.. Bates in Service for Jesus,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-21
WANTS An ENDORSEMENT.
III" Pathetic Appeal of One OF Alex ander III.
Stcphcns's Old Servants ...
CFrom the Atlanta constitutional

StcphcnsH Old servants.
From the Atlanta Constitution1 s.,
The following rather pathetic epistIe
was among those recently received by
Governor Gordon:
Hon. JOHN b. GoRDoN-Dear Sir.
Pardon me for taking the privilege of
writing to You to ask favor of YOU.
About two months ago L was discharged
as n messenger in the Interior Depart
ment, on false report, and the Hon.
Van IL. Manning and an ex-member Of
Congress from the State of Mississippi
Instructed mo to write to you, knowing
that you was a personal friend of nv
former master, Hon. Alexander 81.
stephens, and ask you would you be
KIND enough to write to the Hon. Henry
HarHs, Third Assistant Postmaster
General, at Washington, d. c., in my
behnA1. Mr. Gordon, l was always faith
hI III dlscharBing my duties as mes
scngcr, and OF all the MONEYS, STAMPS
and other Valuables that L handled or
passed through my hands of the depart
mCnt, my employers will say to-day that
they never had the least suspicion of NV
honesty. Furthermore / was true to
my old master. / was faithful. 1 served
him well, and he said when he put me
IN the department, upon this he felt
bound to servo me some too. / was in
General Toombs's brigade during the
war and served there faithful as SER
want. l have crawlcd up on my knees
and hands, over mile, to carry my
friends something TO cat that was in the
defense of their section Of the country
"iI,i irvuUIai TUOIlES has often said I
never forgot my natural ritual. I know
who my best friends are. Mr.. Stephens
said that it are tho duty Of those that
were elevated to high, lofty position to
look upon the humble and poor with the
eye of pity for this reason L appeal to
your sympathy, your charity and to
your generosity as the Governor of the
dear old State that give me birth to
look upon my humble and deprived con-
dition with pity. beg OF you, sir,
with all the humbloness browning the
act of servant to write to Mr.. Harris at
the earliest date as your conveniences
will allow you in my behalf.
RENAL y sir, your most humble and
obedlent ,erVant, PIERCE LAFAYETTE.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-21
A WESTERN TERROR.
The Story of Il Western Highwayman and
Il Mountain Lion.
(From the Chicago News)

mountain Lion.
(From the Chicago News)
An amusing story comes to us from
the far West. For long time an out
Law, named Roach the Terror, had been
tho scour8e oil the mountain districts of
ldaho, ana last month ho waylaid and
proceeded to rob one BivCns, a wealthy
gentleman who was travelling through
the Territory on mining business. While
tho two were thus cmploycd-the one in
rUDbsnB and the other in being robbed
-thcy suddenly became aware of tho
approach OF IL mountain lion, one of
those htcalthy, cruel monsters that in
hahlG and lay waste the Businesses of tho
itOcky AtouutWn region. Roach immo
'hatcjy dropped his booty and skinned
up tree as nimbly as he ever could; as
for tho other man, he didn't stop to pick
up his propCrty-hc followed Roach up
the tree with marked aIacrity. The
I!crco lion, iiaunting his tail savagcly,
licking his hideOuS fangS and rolling its
CLASSY cyeballs suggcstivc!y, looked up
ut the two men in the tree and prepared
TO join them.
-, "Iiavc you pistol?" asked Roach the
Terror.
"No," soid Bivens, the traveller, "but
IN my belt carry a knife fourteen inches
long"
"Ih"n," suggested The Terror, "sup
pose YOU Sick the knife into that var
mint when he ronchers out for us"
"lr", lat If | leave tho knife in the
hon, snd Bivens, "und if he falls with
1t" what protection huyo ] from you?
NO, III keep the knife and let you shoot
the cnttyr with your pistol"
.',Ir5, but supposing J. do shoot him."
Sald kcach, ''what protection have /
against your knife when my pistol is
cmpty?"
hlcanwhii" thc lion was coming ND the
tree With alarming rapidity. lie seemed
to grow three feet every way as he ad
vancgd foot by foot.
'UnlCSS We can come to q compro-
mise, said Roach, ''the vcrmint will cat
us Doth. 1ct'S n&rco to this You stab
MN ant III shoot hirn--at any rate,
either We folks or thut crittcr hn3 got to
''Ihot's so" said Bivons, "oud [ ac-
C"pt the compromise"
80 when tho lion got within range
itonch h,aHcd away at it aud Bivens
reached down and drove his knife clean
up 10 the lilt III the monsters breast.
HE non fell to the ground with bullet
hole III his head and eleven inches of
steel IN Lis Lungs. Then Roach and
'iICnS descended from the tree. They
h;'i escaped 50 narrowly that they could
not D. otAer than friends. Each was in
"r'tca 10 the other for his lifa. They
''"jN"t not 10 separate, and now thoY
ar cr&N<2u in the luudit bu.iness to-
:g"trrf "a tue Idaho businesses.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-21

Does dairy-f0rming pay? Does any
thing but cotton growing pay? asks the
Sparta (Ga.) lslimaelite, and then adds:
Lot us see: Since the first day Of Janua-
ry, 1887, Nlr. w. j. Northern has sold
7GO pounds Of Jersey butter and four
hundr,d aud fifteen GSllD dollars worth
OF stock. Now let some man who holds
th"r t3l1 cniy ready y-money clop OF this
county IS cOtion--that cotton growing,
offers tho surcst guarantee Of money
Ltakm5-tako his pencil and sec il lie
ctn figure such profits out Of IL year OF
toIi &hd ;nINicty i'll the cUtton-iiuld. .Be
t..@t rs IL may, it does look ;,s if Mr..
Morincrn were making his Jclaoys pay.
Il tho be true Of him, Why may not
oih@rs Hnccvcd ct the same business?
Cotton has been king, but kings are
sometimes dcposed; and it not always q
wise subject that sides with the king in
the days Of revolution.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-21
white Glover Among Strawberries.

Some Of the readers of the Southern
CultlVator may have discovered that
there is nothing in the shape of natural
growth SO destructive to the strawberry
plant rs white clover. It is much more
rampant some years than others, but it
Is always the great pestiferous obstacle
to the growth and culture OF this de-
ilclous berry. This may not bo the case
III other strawberry regions, but in our
section Of central Virginia, it is especial
ly so. This clover, like all others, is %
tap-rootcd growth. 1t crowds, hugs and
starves the strawberry plants to ruin
ous extent. Glover roots as well as
strawberry roots, grow in mild winter
weather. This clover and all biennial
weeds end grasses may be wceded out to
advantage i'll winter when the ground is
not frozen, but it is to,iious work.
Now what is tho remedy? Uaud-weed-
ing IS almost impracticablc; it may be
gougcd aud torn away, but its long,
tough roots often remain to como again
and the work is tircsome and will not
pay. The best remedy, however, for
small lots OF for garden culture is to
plant IN hills, two plants i'll hill, hills
suitable distance apart. The cultiyator
can manage them in this position, and
not only white clover, but blue grass
and al other pests can be cradiCatcd
with comparative ease, and tho berries
viii be larger and Of bettor quality.
i. FITZ.
ECgWick, Va.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-21

should be in good condition for work.
ing, The time should be determined by
exporience of past years. The writer has
several times planted corn when the
ground was frozen early in the morning,
and secured a perfect stand of vigorous
plants. In Dakota and other extreme
Northern sections, wheat, corn and veg
etables are planted in May, rs soon as
the ground has thawed to o depth
sufficient to permit of plowing and har-
rowing, the soil having been deeply
broken the preceding fall; and it Often
occurs that the seeds so planted are up
and growing while the deep subsoi is
still hard frozen to the depth of many
inches.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-21
An Iratc Plea for Present STYLES.

There is class Of women, and the
number Of them is unnecessarily large,
who have n tendency TO assume IN air Of
apology and sclf-cXcusc when the love
of adonment and ragcrncss to achieve
the same is talked Of They assume Il
dcprccating air when This subject is
brought up. And why should they? It
ls natural and fitting that womcn should
want to look and dress we'll More thun
that, it is wOman'a duty, just so far as
her circumstances and means will admit,
to dress well and tustcfully. Why thcrr
IS any occasion for u woman to make II
"Guy" Of herself for "beauty S sake" is a
mystery. Dressing, to be sure, is an
art, and it is only to those TO whom this
art is unknown who are raising the mlc
and cry about "drcs8 reform" and "son.
Slblo dressing" Tho women who thcOr-
lzo most cxhoustivcly upon this sc. called
sensible dressing arc apt to bo the most
dowdy and ridiculous anywhere to be
found. 1t is the woman devoid Of all
,,fsto2 wnoRo figure is scrawny and abso.
Iutcly destitute Of any lines OF beauty,
whose nrm Is long and bony, that is sure
on every and all occasions to declare
mat the dressing of tho present day is
harmful and injurious to ones health.
Ihoy see sin lurking in every runlo and
plCat.-IIx.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-21
SCIENTIFIC HOAXES.
How Some Scientists Dressed Up Parts of
tho Nastodon in II Ianciful Manner.
(ScriDner for AnrilO

Gcribner iorAprl)
The great lesson which Cuvier taught
the world was, that many races of ami
mails were entirely extinct, and that
nature S chain of existence had not one
but many missing links. From his
recognition Of that fact the science OF
paleontology may be said to date. But
the cardivOrOus nature Of the mastodon
was too fascinating TN abSurdity to DO
so easily killed, and it continued 70 up-
pear at intervals. AS late as 1885 we
find u New England medical professor
WntlnH rs If IL were an unuuCStiOnable
fact. The giant theory fingered still
longer, and even yet cannot be cOnsid-
cred entirely extinct among tho un-
learned. The dictum that the supcrhti-
lions OF ono ago arc but the science Of
preceding ages receives ample conhIma-
uon In tho history Of this subject. Not
longer ago than 1916 muStodOn skCle-
ton was exhibited in New Orleans as
! that OF giant. The Uranium was made
OF raw hide, fantastic wooden teeth were
fitted i'll tho jaws, all missing parts wero
restored alter the human model, and the
whole raised upon the hind legs. 1t
certainly conveyed the notion Of "a
hldcous, diab0lical Eiunt," and was no
.>''''' >.St St'opHIbiS lOl HElllO nightmares.
AS sad commentary on the state Of the
medical profession il the southwest at the
time, it may be added that the exhibitor
was perfectly honest in his belief, and TO
support his faith he had q trunk full OF
physlcianS' certificates that these were
human bOfcs.
In 1910 CDR Koch, German char
latan, created great sensation by an
nounclng the discovery Of the levintham
OF Job, which he called tho NIiSsourirlm,
from the State where it was found. 1t
turned out, however, to be nothing but
a maStodon prcpostcrously mounted.
Koch had added an extra dozen or more
joints to tue backbone and ribs to the
chest, turned the tuskS Outward into II
semi circle, aAd converted the animal
INTO an aquatic monster which anchored
itself to trees by means Of ia sickle.
shaped tusRS and then peacefully alluu-
bored on the bosom Of Tho waves. Like
the Siberian, he found interesting cou-
iirmatlons Of his views in the book Of
Job, that refuge of perplexcd monster
makers. Koch took his lcviath;u 10
London, where it WAS purchased by the
British museum, and rcconvcrtcd into
mastodon by Professor Owen, WHO at
once recognized It's truo nature.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-21
LMEUnEs ~ \ lIUl;%H CAR.
ThcN Escape from Il Lady's Puri,ct and
Cause Any Amount OF IrouhIc.
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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-21
4 New Way to Pay Old Debts.

Shakespeare tells how this can be accom-.
PIlshed in one of his immortal PLAYS but
deDts to nature must be paid on demand
unless days of grace be obtained throuch
me inc use OF DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
discovery" 1t is not "cure all5 hut in
valuable Tor sore throat, bronchitis, asth.
ma, catsrrh, consumption and all diseases
o. INC pulmonary and other organs. caused
py Scroiula OF bad blood. Sciofuloua
its wonderful Alternative action By ~ J,,,s ~
gists ~ l~uSS
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-21
\ story Of Two Words.

ooh, if [ wcro lucky enough to calI
this estate mine, [ should be happy
fellow" said a young man. ''And thcn?'
said friend. "Why, then pd pun
down the old house, and build palace,
have lots of prime follows round me,
Keep the best wines, and tho Guc,I
horses and dogs in the county," "Auo
them "Ihen I'd hunt, and lidc, aDu
smoke, and drink, and dnuce, and kccI
open house, and enjoy life gIofiously.
"And thcn?" "Why, then, / snpp1sl,
like other people, / should grow DID,
ana not care much for these things. "
"And thon?" "Why, then, L suppose
ia the course Of nature l should leave
all these pleasant thing8-and-wolI-
ycs-die." "And then?" ooh, bother
your thens, I must be Off"
Many years after the friend was
0ccosted with: "God bless you! / owe
my happiness to your "EGow?" BY
two words spoken in season long ogo--
"And thcn?'-Tho Culver.